A former executive of the organizing committee of Tokyo Olympics was arrested this Wednesday by Japanese authorities on suspicion of receiving bribes from a well-known local company.
Haruyuki Takahashi78, and a member of the board of directors of the organizing committee of the event held last summer, was arrested for allegedly accepting money from a well-known Japanese chain of suit stores. Aoki for consulting services, as announced today by the prosecutor’s office tokyo.
The bribe amount will reach 51 million yen (about 370,000 euros), according to details of the case collected by local media.
Along with the former Tokyo 2020 executive, Japanese authorities arrested Hironori Aoki, former head of the aforementioned company, and two other people involved in the alleged bribery.
Japanese prosecutors suspect that the aforementioned amount was paid to an entity linked to Takahashi in a series of transactions between October 2017 and last March, in exchange for giving Aoki preferential treatment in the sponsor selection process for the previous Tokyo Games.
The textile company announced in October 2018 that it had become an official sponsor of the Games, allowing it to use its emblems and sell official products. The company also manages the official uniforms of the Olympic Games.
Takahashi joined the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee in June 2014, after the Japanese capital won its bid the previous year.
A former manager of Japan’s largest advertising agency that also helped organize the Games, Dentsu, Takahashi is a well-known figure in Japan’s sports world and one of the key figures in the now-defunct Tokyo 2020 organizing committee. committee.
Aoki’s consulting contract with Takahashi’s entity would have been signed before the events took place.
The governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, said today that she was “deeply disappointed” by the alleged corruption case affecting the Games held in the Japanese capital, in statements to local media.
This case adds to a long list of scandals that have affected the Tokyo Games and led to the removal of several high-profile figures linked to the organization of the event.
Among them are the resignation in 2019 of the president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, Tsunekazu Takeda, who was involved in a case of buying votes with other national committees to favor the Tokyo candidacy, or that of Yasuhiro Mori, president of the organizing committee of the Games, due to controversial sexist comments and only 5 months before the opening of the Olympic event.
Source: La Verdad
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